Digital healthcare can take sophisticated medical services to unsophisticated environments

Digital healthcare, which is the use of information and communications technologies and devices to provide medical services, can enable the local use of expert and international resources, as well as augment the capabilities of medical practitioners even in resource-constrained environments. This can be achieved through the establishment of a digital medical services platform and an ecosystem to link healthcare consumers to their doctors and other healthcare professionals, enabling healthcare professionals to serve more patients more effectively, Discovery Health CEO Dr Ryan Noach tells Engineering News.